[GNC] Gnucash on MacOs Catalina

[John Ralls]

Cool it with the wild speculation.

FYI I've been running GnuCash 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 on Catalina since the first developer beta in early June with no issues at all.

I suspect from the error messages that the OP is trying to run GnuCash 2.6.x. Those were built as 32-bit apps to support MacOS 10.5 and 10.6. Catalina won't run 32-bit apps. That's why I asked the OP what version of GnuCash they're trying to run.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Oct 10, 2019, at 7:48 PM, GWB <gwb at 2realms.com> wrote:
> 
> Chronosync is another app that needed some work to integrate smoothly
> with Catalina.  This excerpt from their email to users explains:
> 
> <<
> The Catalina Split
> Catalina introduces a new APFS feature called ‘Volume Groups’. Under
> Catalina, Apple takes advantage of this ability and splits the boot
> volume into two components: System and Data. The System volume is
> read-only and contains all the operating system files that should
> never change during use of the computer. The Data volume contains
> everything else, including the user’s home folders. Through a new
> Apple feature known as firmlinks, the two volumes are linked together
> to appear as one volume to the user, so you will only see one drive on
> your Mac. However, there really are two distinct boot volumes mounted.
> You can see the two volumes using Disk Utility or by mounting the
> drive on an older macOS. If running a bootable backup, we strongly
> recommend starting fresh with a new backup volume and not to copy over
> your old bootable backup volume. Read the ChronoSync Catalina Tech
> Note for all the details.
>>> 
> 
> This may have no relevance at all, but if your version of GnuCash
> "needs" to alter a specific file in the System folder (which is
> doubtful, but possible) Catalina may be using a "hard link" instead of
> the underlying file.  The devs would know.
> 
> I'm not sure, but it looks like Apple is re-inventing the old LVM and
> calling it something different.  It's usually good to separate boot OS
> from data (Unix welcomes Apple to 1998!), but this might not be the
> way to do it.  Better to just mount them in separate LVM
> containers/volumes, and snapshot them.
> 
> What type of CPU does system information report on your mac?  The
> error message "Bad CPU type in executable" might be Catalina seeing a
> CPU call from GnuCash (amd64 bit i7, usually) as something else.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:19 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 1:09 PM, gnucash at pelchar.no-ip.org wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm having trouble starting gnucash on Catalina. Here's the message I get
>>> from the command line:
>>> 
>>> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: line
>>> 95: /Volumes/Macintosh
>>> HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin: Bad CPU type in
>>> executable
>>> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: line
>>> 95: /Volumes/Macintosh
>>> HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin: Undefined error: 0
>>> 
>>> Anybody has a clue?
>> 
>> What version of GnuCash?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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